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What The ICR Cult'sOccult Beliefs / Tenents / Oaths Are.

The Institute for Creation Research began in 1970 as a
division of Christian Heritage College, the later
established by Henry Morris, Tim LaHaye and Scott
Memorial Baptist Church (of San Diego, CA) as "the first
college in modern times formed in order to provide a
liberal arts education based specifically on strict
Biblical creationism and full Biblical controls in all
courses." (Henry M. Morris. History of Modern
Creationism. Master Books Publishers, 1984; p.222.)

Below is the ICR's statement of faith, written in 1981
when the ICR became formally independent of Christian
Heritage College and was no longer governed by its
statement of faith. This must be signed annually by all
ICR staff and by its trustees. According to the ICR's
by-laws, it cannot be changed. The statement of faith
has two parts -- the "tenets of scientific[sic] creationism"
and the "tenets of Biblical creationism." Also
reproduced is a portion of the "ICR educational
philosophy" which appears in the Institute's Graduate
School catalog. My source is appendix G of the book cited
in the preceding paragraph:

ICR EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

The programs and curricula of the Graduate School, as
well as the activities of other ICR divisions, while
similar in factual content to those of other graduate
colleges, are distinctive in one major respect. The
Institute for Creation Research bases its educational
philosophy on the foundational truth of a personal
Creator-God and His authoritative and unique revelation
of truth in the Bible, both Old and New Testaments.

This perspective differs from the evolutionary
humanistic[sic] philosophy which has dominated most
educational institutions for the past century, providing
the most satisfying and meaningful structure of a
consistently creationist and Biblical framework, and
placing the real facts of science and history in the best
context for effective future research and application.

More explicitly, the administration and faculty of ICR
are committed to the tenets of both scientific[sic]
creationism and Biblical creationism as formulated
below. A clear distinction is drawn between scientific[sic]
creationism and Biblical creationism but it is the
position of the Institute that the two are compatible and
that all genuine facts of science support the Bible. ICR
maintains that scientific[sic] creationism should be taught
along with the scientific aspect of evolutionism[sic] in
tax-supported institutions, and that both scientific[sic] and
Biblical creationism should be taught in Christian
schools. [And public schools--- ed]

TENETS OF SCIENTIFIC[SIC] CREATIONISM

1) The physical universe of space, time, matter and
energy has not always existed, but was supernaturally
created by a transcendent personal Creator who alone
existed from eternity.

2) The phenomenon of biological life did not develop by
natural processes from inanimate systems but was
specially and supernaturally created by the Creator.

3) Each of the major kinds of plants and animals was
created functionally complete for the beginning and did
not evolve from some other kind of organism. Changes in
basic kinds since their first creation are limited to
"horizontal" changes (variation) within kinds, or
"downward" changes (e.g., harmful mutations, extinctions).

4) The first human beings did not evolve from an animal
ancestry, but were specially created in fully human form
from the start. Furthermore, the "spiritual" nature of
man (self-image, moral consciousness, abstract reasoning,
language, will, religious nature, etc.) is itself a
supernaturally created entity distinct from mere
biological life.

5) The record of earth history, as preserved in the
earth's crust, especially in the rocks and fossil
deposits, is primarily a record of catastrophic
intensities of natural processes, operating largely
within uniform laws, rather than one of gradualism and
relatively uniform process rates. There are many
scientific[sic] evidences for a relatively recent creation of
the earth and the universe, in addition to strong
scientific[sic] evidence that most of the earth's
fossiliferous sedimentary rocks were formed in an even
more recent global hydraulic cataclysm.

6) Processes today operate primarily within fixed
natural laws and relatively uniform process rates but,
since these were themselves originally created and are
daily maintained by their Creator, there is always the
possibility of miraculous intervention in these laws or
processes by their Creator. Evidences for such
intervention should be scrutinized critically, however,
because there must be clear and adequate reason for any
such action on the part of the Creator.

7) The universe and life have somehow been impaired
since the completion of creation, so that imperfections
in structure, disease, aging, extinctions, and other such
phenomena are the result of "negative" changes in
properties and processes occurring in an
originally-perfect created order.

8) Since the universe and its primary components were
created perfect for their purpose in the beginning by a
competent and volitional Creator, and since the Creator
does remain active in this now-decaying creation, there
do exist ultimate purposes and meanings in the universe.
Teleological considerations, therefore, are appropriate
in scientific studies whenever they are consistent with
the actual data of observation, and it is reasonable to
assume that the creation presently awaits the
consummation of the Creator's purpose.

9) Although people are finite and scientific data
concerning origins are always circumstantial and
incomplete, the human mind (if open to the possibility of
creation) is able to explore the manifestations of that
Creator rationally and scientifically, and to reach an
intelligent decision regarding one's place in the
Creator's plan.

TENETS OF BIBLICAL CREATIONISM

1) The Creator of the universe is a triune God --
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There is only one eternal
and transcendent God, the source of all being and
meaning, and He exists in three Persons, each of whom
participated in the work of creation.

2) The Bible, consisting of the thirty-nine canonical
books of the Old Testament and the twenty-seven canonical
books of the New Testament, is the divinely-inspired
revelation of the Creator to man. Its unique, plenary,
verbal inspiration guarantees that these writings, as
originally and miraculously given, are infallible and
completely authoritative on all matters with which they
deal, free from error of any sort, scientific and
historical as well as moral and theological.

3) All things in the universe were created and made by
God in the six literal days of creation week described in
Genesis 1:1-2:3, and confirmed in Exodus 20:8-11. The
creation record is factual, historical, and perspicuous;
thus all theories of origins or development which involve
evolution in any form are false. All things which now
exist are sustained and ordered by God's providential
care. However, a part of the spiritual creation, Satan
and his angels, rebelled against God after the creation
and are attempting to thwart His divine purposes in
creation. 4) The first human beings, Adam and Eve, were
specially created by God, and all other men and women are
their descendants. In Adam, mankind was instructed to
exercise "dominion" over all other created organisms, and
over the earth itself (an implicit commission for true
science, technology, commerce, fine art, and education)
but the temptation by Satan and the entrance of sin
brought God's curse on that dominion and on mankind,
culminating in death and separation from God as the
natural and proper consequence.

5) The Biblical record of primeval earth history in
Genesis 1-11 is fully historical and perspicuous,
including the creation and fall of man, the curse on the
creation and its subjection to the bondage of decay, the
promised Redeemer, the worldwide cataclysmic deluge in
the days of Noah, the post-diluvian renewal of man's
commission to subdue the earth (now augmented by the
institution of human government) and the origin of
nations and languages at the tower of Babel.

6) The alienation of man from his Creator because of sin
can only be remedied by the Creator Himself, who became
man in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, through
miraculous conception and virgin birth. In Christ were
indissolubly united perfect sinless humanity and full
deity, so that His substitutionary death is the only
necessary and sufficient price of man's redemption. That
the redemption was completely efficacious is assured by
His bodily resurrection from the dead and ascension into
heaven; the resurrection of Christ is thus the focal
point of history, assuring the consummation of God's
purpose in creation.

7) The final restoration of creation's perfection is yet
future, but individuals can immediately be restored to
fellowship with their Creator, on the basis of His
redemptive work on their behalf, receiving forgiveness
and eternal life solely through personal trust in the
Lord Jesus Christ, accepting Him not only as estranged
Creator but also as reconciling Redeemer and coming King.
Those who reject Him, however, or who neglect to believe
on Him, thereby continue in their state of rebellion and
must ultimately be consigned to the everlasting fire
prepared for the devil and his angels.

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